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A couple of years ago Xiaomi unveiled the Redmi 2A - a phone powered by a Leadcore chipset. You’d be forgiven if you haven’t heard the name before, but both companies partnered to create Beijing Songguo (of which Xiaomi controls 51%, Leadcore the...

We already showed you how Samsung Galaxy S8 will look like on the outside. And we told you that there are two devices expected - a 5.7" regular Galaxy S8 and a 6.2" Galaxy S8 Plus. Devices will have a dedicated button for the AI assistant named...

After Cyanogen Inc. folded, the CyanogenMod community was forced to reorganize, which gave birth to Lineage OS. It seems that the Inc. part is getting a new lease on life too, rebirthed as Andrasta. Former Cyanogen Inc. CEO Kirt McMaster (who...

The Gionee F5 has just been unveiled and it's already available in China. The mid-range smartphone leaked last December courtesy of TENAA, so we knew what to expect, but Gionee still managed to surprise us. The F5 is now available in gold and...

We’ve seen renders of the new flagship devices by Huawei and heard even more alleged specs. We saw various color options, alleged curved screen and a front-mounted fingerprint sensor. Now we have info how much the phones will cost in China and can...

It was speculated that the LG G6 will use a Snapdragon 820 chipset as Samsung bought up all of the initial S835 supply. Now there’s some shaky evidence to support that speculation - an LG H871 has entered the GeekBench database with a S820 chipset...

Another day another leak and as they go, this is a big one. The LG G6 has leaked once again this time thanks to a bunch of renders for Ringke cases. The leaked photos show a design consistent with previous leaks with a dual-camera and fingerprint...

There were many leaks and rumors about LG's upcoming smartwarches. We knew that they will come out as LG Watch Sport and LG Watch Style on February 9 alongside Android Wear 2.0. Thanks to our a BestBuy employee, we now know what the LG Watch...

Inline with the February timeframe revealed by a Motorola spokesperson last month, the Nougat update for unlocked Motorola Moto Z units has started rolling out in the United States. The update arrives as build number NPL25.86-17-3. Finally....

As expected, the Huawei-made Google Nexus 6P has started receiving the Android security patch for February. The update carries the build number of N4F26O and weighs in at 39MB. While there's currently no confirmation on this, the update is...

The LG K10 (2017) - which was officially unveiled back in December last year, and showcased at this year's CES - has been announced for South Korea. The device carriers the 'X400' moniker there. The handset will be available through all major...

The yet-to-be-announced Meizu M5s, which has already cleared TENAA and has also been spotted in benchmark listings, has now leaked in images. The leak shows the back as well as the front of the handset. Specs-wise, according to TENAA, the...

The Xiaomi Redmi Note 4X, which has already cleared TENAA, will be made official in two days - February 8. This was revealed by the Chinese company in a post on Weibo (China's Twitter). Here's what the post read (translated): "Not Wu Xiubo, not...

Ahead of the final roll out, which is set to begin sometime next month, Huawei has started pushing out the Nougat beta update to its Honor 6X smartphone. The information was revealed by the Chinese company's Pakistan subsidiary on Twitter. If you...

Linea Linea is the newest app from Iconfactory. It's a drawing app that lets you focus on the drawing part with simple but powerful tools that don't get in your way or overwhelm you but at the same time retain all the important...

Providing answers to your questions is what we do here at GSMArena, serving you as detailed reviews as possible and including all the tests we can think of. But having a tech-savvy audience such as ours there’s always more stuff that you want to...

The Android 7.0 Nougat update for the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge is here and we've covered the software changes at length. We've also promptly retested battery life since the update is a relatively major change. All tests were performed on the...

We've seen this movie before - a Xiaomi Redmi Note on top of our weekly Top 10 trending chart for weeks on end. Now it's the Mediatek version of the Redmi Note 4 that's been holding the crown for three weeks in a row. The Snapdragon version is in...

It’s a never-ending rat race this, keeping your phone’s software up to date. Phone manufacturers have become more responsible about providing security updates, but they can still be uncooperative when it comes to bringing you the latest and greatest...

As we get closer to MWC 2017 the calm before the storm has started to settle in. We see very few actual announcements and the rumor mill is where all the action is. Despite being further away the Samsung Galaxy S8 pair is soaking up most of the...